And if those little fleeting glimpse-glances are food-related? All the better.
Remember when the fabulous Ricki sent me an incredible care package of deliciousness? I finally allowed myself to try the Sweets From The Earth vegan double chocolate cookies. They reminded me in a lovely nostalgic way of the cookies mum used to pack in my lunchbox, and my many-allergies-navigating grandma liked them too. Nicely crunchy and generous with the chocolate chips, they were. (It seems these cookies turn me into Yoda.)
When I was at Prahan Market with Heidi (who just got married oh my squee yay happy happy smiley love love hurah!), we were assailed by a two-faced vendor who spruiked his gluten-free goods to us when he thought we wanted them, then ranted viciously about all the gluten-avoiding fad-obsessed “liars” out there when we told him that we eat gluten.
The ranting was worth it, though, because Heidi bought the above Roasted Almond Muesli from the stall and then turned and handed the packet to me, without my ever having realised that she’d withstood the man’s evilness just to procure me this gift. Heidi, you make my heart soar. The muesli was truly wonderful, so soft and fresh. And it makes a good thick bircher with coconut flour, soy milk, and fresh blackberries too.
Um.
Did I buy these Tomato Sauce Pringles?
No comment.
Did I eat them?
No comment.
Were they good?
Oh heck no.
But at least they were vegan.
These green beans have a love that is timeless. A love that binds them together both on and beyond this earthly plane. Don’t you no never never try to break them apart, y’all. They have a love that is timeless.
The other week at gospel, I ran across the room in the break to talk to my darling Fi then, upon my return, found a mystery package waiting for me on my seat.
Inside were two bars of Lindt 85%.
Mike, thank you! I’ve been using these bars as my break-in-case-of-stress-emergency stash all week.
Oh no you don’t, Back To Nature. I’ve had enough of your hurtful games.
Except, well, I kind of do a little bit want to try the cinnamon heart cereal. And I can’t see any incorrect punctuation or grammar on that particular box, so maybe I’m allowed?
So many kinds of wrong. So very many that I’ve lost count.
(How about getting your energy from, say, an apple? With peanut butter? And sufficient sleep? Yes, I and my insomniac ways are in no position to harp on about the latter, but still. You get my point.)
Warm just-baked vanilla craisin muffins with Nuttelex (or butter), on the other hand?
So many kinds of right.
Question Time: What amazing/horrific eats have you chanced upon lately?
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tomato sauce pringles??? I WANT!
They totally sound like perfect pregnant lady food
I much prefer my Guarana to come with chocolate and caramel thank you very much!
Oh and on the subject of Pringles – where are they hiding all of the salt and vinegar?! If they can produce gacky flavours like tomato sauce surely the can still produce the edible ones …
Unfortunately everytime I read “guarana” I think “guano”, and then I don’t want it anywhere near my mouth.
I used to love salt and vinegar chips as a kid! Oh the delicious burning…
You may have just successfully turned me off guarana …
It’s the little things.
What is with those CCs?!?! Yup, WRONG. My mind can’t seem to process that photo, it’s just too much wrongness. I don’t care that’s not a word. Who OK’d that proto-type?!? They must have been high (on the chips)
Love the beans
Exactly. Why won’t someone put their energies into Australia’s first flavoured peanut butter company, not energy chips? Ugh.
Yesss Sweets from the Earth cookies (the company is based in Toronto, y’know) that make you speak like Yoda!
I don’t recall encountering any foods as bizarre as Tomato Sauce Pringles recently (egh?), but I did try to make a green smoothie with romaine, which wasn’t particularly delicious.
I do indeed know that! Ricki was utterly awesome in sending me local goodies from her area. If this was a ploy to get me to visit… it’s working.
Teehee, sometimes I make green smoothies, but mostly I’m happy to eat lots of vegetables on their own and keep my smoothies non-murky.
omg those energy chips are one of the funniest (scariest) things i’ve ever seen!
i recently tried chocolate zico coconut water. it is ammmazing. its like the chocolate milk i’ve always dreamed of. check it out
I wish I could check it out, but we don’t even have readily accessible plain coconut water here! Sadface.
I confess, I really want to try those cinnamon hearts too! But I’m scared. I bought the waffle bites and they are……..blech. REALLY….well…BLECH! I’m going to have to get creative and make some kind of cereal bar with them (read-cover them in sugar and chocolate and peanut butter) in order to make them remotely edible so I just don’t know if I can part with another $5 or so for another box of something icky to decorate my pantry shelves.
After my sad experience with the Cookie flavour, I knew that the waffle kind would be similarly disappointing and so managed to avoid buying them! I definitely advocate covering them in chocolate and peanut butter, though. That works for everything (except maybe capers).
Another tastes-diverging moment – i LOVE tomato sauce pringles!
I must admit, I liked them at first… and then my tongue felt all funny. Maybe if I hadn’t eaten half the can in fifteen minutes…
Ooh those biscuits look so good right now.
I’ve had the Back to Nature cereal- the ones that look like itty bitty cookies. Very good snack, definitely worth a shot!
That’s the one I eviscerated in the link above, so I’m going to have to disagree with you there. Nothing makes up for incorrect grammar and punctuation.
Tomato sauce Pringles…I. Want.
Get thee to your local Coles!
Ooh, so many things to comment on!
1. Those Back to Nature cereals are taunting me. I keep seeing their flavours and thinking “maybe *this* one will be good” and then reminding myself that I still have the spelt flakes with agave and the spelt flakes with cinnamon (oh yes, I did) in the cupboard – still and possibly forever – and I make myself walk on. But it is difficult!
2. I’m glad Heidi withstood the wrath of Mr Mean Gluten man for you. I don’t really like muesli (bircher muesli is an exception) but soft and fresh sounds like a good thing.
3. I love the Wayfaring Chocolate packet, and the look of those cookies.
4. I don’t like the look of those pringles or CC chips!
1. DON’T DO IT. Stand strong and resist pouring money into the coffers of companies that can’t use punctuation or grammar correctly! STAND STRONG.
2. It reminded me how much I used to love eating plain raw oats
3. Mike’s awesome. I haven’t cut out magazine letters for messages since primary school
4. Double ugh! At least I didn’t buy the chips.
I have a secret. I really love ketchup and tomato sauce. And to have these on Pringles? Heaven!
I wanted them to be tasty, and at first they were, but then my tongue started feeling funny.
Maybe because I never grew up with tomato sauce? (Mum’s tomato allergy!)
I’d eat the pringles and the chips.
Why? Because my breakfast, as I type this, is leftover, slightly-hard gingerbread smeared with crunchy peanut butter and honey with a plate of fresh strawberries to follow.
OH MY GOD KATH THAT IS THE BEST BREAKFAST EVER.
I honest to goodness dream of pain d’epice spread with peanut butter.
what a happy and hilarious post – so loved that wayfaring chocolate package and so happy to avoid pringles with tomato sauce – tomato sauce is a weird flavour and makes people do weird things – small children want to smother everything in it and grown men think it is ok to just throw lots of it into their pasta and tell me that there wasn’t much pasta sauce in the first place so that is ok – (though at least man in question has outgrown thinking brown sauce on pasta is gourmet). And I will have a chocolate biscuit – nay, two – please!
My questions today is why do cafes put creamy dairy in a minestrone and uncooked spring onion on pizza – hurrah for roasted chickpeas and cherry ripe lolly pops to get me through a day of disappointing eating out!
Oh Johanna, thank you! I’m using my blog to create/remind myself of happiness right now, so I’m glad it’s coming across that way
I feel like I missed out on a requisite part of childhood by having a mother with tomato allergies and therefore no tomato sauce in the house! Ah well, at least I always had chocolate 
Whaaaa? Dairy in minestrone?! That’s so wrong! I adore roasted chickpeas… are the cherry ripe lollypops of your own creation?
I saw a billposter for those CCs and thought I was dreaming. Words fail.
And awww what a cute package. Do kids even bother cutting out letters from magazines for the projects anymore?!
Whereas I just read “I saw a bipolar for those CCs” and had NO IDEA what was going on.
Isn’t it awful? I can’t help fearing for my primary school teacher brother if kids start eating these on top of those horrible energy drinks…
Hmm. Kids may not, but 71-year-old Mikes clearly do
You should know that Canada is pretty famous for our ketchup and our dill pickle flavoured potato chips. When you come I will procure you a bag of each.
Also, Sweets from the Earth rocks. Those cookies are at all the coffee shops here and their amazing vegan cheesecakes are in all the freezers at the grocery stores including a luscious chocolate one and one topped with blueberries.
See you soon.
Sometimes when I see your name pop up here, Lisa, all I want to do is write “LISA!!!!!!!” and then do a happy dance for your existence.
I will happily devour any and all pickle-flavoured anythings you have waiting for me, my darling. And then search madly for something sweet to counteract the sodium
(In your freezer, perhaps?)
At the same time, it almost makes me cry that vegan cheesecakes are just, y’know, hangin’ out in grocery stores in Toronto. We’re lucky if there’s even a dubious-looking soy cream cheese in our chilled sections.
xo
Excellent work Mike on finding so many letters from so many different fonts that are of approximately identical size!
Excellent work beans on being snuggly and adorable!
Excellent work Hannah on eating all kinds of iffy foods that I wood eat, were I out and about buying snacks from the store and/or items from machines. Trying sketchy foods is one of my favorite pastimes!
The CCs chips are a head scratcher, and the Pringles chip looks awkwardly anthropomorphic. Love the pretty plate up top though:)
Thanks Emma! Had to cut my way through a dozen magazines. I was happy to put in the time and effort for a special young lady.
Thanks for responding. It’s highly unlikely that the cuddle beans will do the same! And wows, a dozen! I bet she’s even more special live – err, in person:)
She is!!!! And today (29 Feb) she can propose to any single man in the whole wide world!!!
I feel like I should just leave you two to this
Except I can’t, because I love chatting. 
*laughs* If I find a man to propose to today, then I’m going to nickname him “Cuddle Bean” forevermore. Alas, I don’t think either of those things is going to happen!
Aw! *hugs*
He’s rather spectacular. And hurrah! I’m so hopeless when it comes to crazy snacks in supermarkets. Urge to buy… rising…
You can propose to your Mr Bean in another four years Hannah. In the meantime, let your hair down and click those heels and party, party, party!
Or, you know, work work work and cry a lot!
Here I stand in a commercial kitchen reading your post out to my colleagues shaking my head in dismay… Q. How do you remain so thin? Q. If I eat all the goodies you eat, do I get slim and fantastic too? Q. Do you eat a lot of green beans? That’s the key isn’t it? Q. When are we going for beers?
Sorry my darling I have been absent, I’ve been reading your blogs, just not commenting. You sound amazingly happy. Thinking of you bestie. Love love. Xx
*laughs* It’s the junk food + vegetables plan
I’m so delighted that you’re still reading, darling! And beers will come as soon as I’m not stressed (and crying all the time. Thank god I have this blog to focus on the happiness in! xo
I love Pringles and CCs like crazy but that tomato sauce one just sounds nasty (I’ll stick to my sour cream and chives, thanks!) and I would never buy that packet of CCs. Even my energy drink-loving boyfriend refuses to eat that stuff!
My guess is Year Nine boys are the target market for those chips… poor high school teachers!
I think it’s because I had a terrible night’s sleep last night but the sight of those two spooning beans made me come over all sniffly.
Glad that guy’s horrible rampage resulted in some delicious delicious muesli!
Oh my gosh, the rampage was hilarious. After we were saying “So if we’d said we were coeliac, he would have smarmed us and then complained about us behind our backs?!”
I love how you’re always trying new and unique products
The tomato pringles sound a bit weird and even though I admire how they’ve tried to make vegan ~
I’ve been lucky ~ I haven’t had any bad food lately but I did have some really bad chocolate cheesecake last night >_<
I was rather delighted that the vegan label was so prominent; I haven’t really seen many products with that here.
Oh, bad cheesecake is the worst! It always disappoints my soul when I get bad cheesecake, as then I have pain *and* an icky taste to deal with.
Those CCs are wrong in just so many ways.
On the other hand now I really want a chocolate cookie.
I won’t judge you about pringles, in fact I will tell you that when I was younger I used to eat them all by myself in a few minutes, I was a pringleholic
There are worse -holics to be
HAHA I saw those new Back to Nature cereals too!!! But no way I’m getting them after my horrible experience with waffle bitezzzzzzzzzzz.
I’d spend my bus ride home from school eating ‘Toki Toki’! They’re tiny round balls of corn meal chips with tomato flavouring! And my fingers would get red from the colouring! ahhh.. good time!
Tomato flavoured crisps/chips are actually very popular in Malaysia!
The weirdest flavour I’ve ever tried was cucumber flavoured Pringles!!! No surprise- I got them from China.
Cucumber Pringles! I’d be all over that. I’m dreaming of the dill pickle chips Lisa mentioned above
Pink aperitivi in the piazza at Padola in the Dolomites after Finley’s ski race.
Then a plate of gorgeous gluggy barley soup with veggies. Plus red wine for drunken mummies.
Buonissimo!
Oh, that sounds wonderful. Let me close my eyes and wake up there.
I don’t know why people can’t leave a good potato chip alone. I don’t think I’ve yet really tasted a flavoured one I like. Less is more folks!
Oh, and what were those cookies (biscuits) I put in your lunchbox? I did that? That wasn’t very healthy mother-y of me was it!
What if someone made a scrambled-eggs-on-vegemite-toast flavour?
Sometimes you’d put in store-bought chocolate chip cookies. And sometimes I even managed to eat one before Crystal took them…
Hannah, I hate it when I look forward to trying something new and it tastes horrible. That reminds me of the first time I tried kale chips, the store bought kind. It was atrocious. I couldn’t get the horrid taste out of my mouth! Haha, that’s when I was inspired to make my own.
Just the other day my friend told me about how she tried the Dante cocoa bar which is 98% cocoa and sweetened with stevia! Thought I’d pass it along to ya. I want to try this, especially since I’m on a sugar free kick right now.
http://www.amazon.com/Dante-Confections-Cocoa-Stevia-Chocolate/dp/B003EMQGVI/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Thanks Junia, that chocolate looks really interesting! Alas, Amazon won’t ship grocery items to Australia
I’ll have to live vicariously through you if you try it!
P.S. I bought kale chips once in New York and loved them, which has been very sad because I can’t even find kale here to make my own!
Girl Scout Cookies. Nom.
It’s funny, hey? People really do think ‘vegan’ = healthy foods. so not the case all the time, clearly. tomato sauce pringles! Yay for red hill muesli love! man that guy had issues… thanks for the link and wedding love, gorgeous
Oh, and those CCs are horrifying. I am horrified.
Heidi xo
The Muesli was so good it completely obliterated the awfulness of the Pringles and the CCs combined
Can’t wait to hear about the wedding! xo
What?! You mean you’ve been hanging on to those cookies ALL. THIS. TIME?!! My dear, you have a self control I could only dream about. . . hope they weren’t stale!! And your other goodies sound, respectively, delish, vomitorious, oh! so sweet, Oh! Even Sweeter!, grammatically exemplary, extra terretrial, and intriguing–what does Nuttelex taste like, anyway?
Bahahaha!! I am so far from self-control when it comes to food! What I do have is a desperate hoarding and delayed gratification tendency when it comes to food treats that I can’t replenish, and so I’ve been doing things like eating entire blocks of Lindt 85% in the space of two days to resist the lure of the cookies. Also… I was saving these for a time when I desperately needed a mood boost – the combination of deliciousness and from-you was a powerful happy-maker
I *loved* going back and matching your adjectives to the photos
So much fun! And Nuttelex is just a dairy-free spread, so I guess vaguely like butter but not? 
This all looks like supremely appropriate food for stressful times. Double choc biscuits! Pringles that taste like a condiment! Muffins! Lovebeans!
Now someone just needs to create chips that taste like peanut butter.
Wait… ew, I think.
No, no! Peanut flips! The peanut butter flavoured cheesy pouf-type things I had in Switzerland. They were glorious! And should totally be for sale in Australia.
Those need to be inside my mouth.
Haha, I chuckled all the way through this post.
I tried quinoa again recently. *shudder*
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